How often have you been perplexed with the problem of what to get someone as a gift? After all, how many ties or bottles of aftershave can you give a man before it’s too much? Or your mum or dad, who always says: “Oh, I’ll love anything you give me!”

Beyond friends and family, what about a little something different to give out at the office? Aren’t you tired of just giving the “Employee of the Month” a boring certificate?
Well, here at Cartoon Motivators, I specialize in creative and unique caricatures for personalized gifts or corporate awards. If you’re looking for a great, unique way to award someone in your company, or just a cool way to say how much you appreciate someone, then I can provide you with completely original and unique caricatures of your favorite faculty member, loved one or friend.

All you have to do is send me a photo of the person and some helpful tips on their hobbies and personalities. I will sketch an initial cartoon for your approval. People always love the little personal touches. A caricature that shows your friend/loved one skiing down the Alps or punting up the Thames makes it so much more fun than just a simple picture. And, you don’t have to worry about the picture being inappropriate for “young eyes”; I do cartoons that are acceptable for anyone to see.

You can decline the design or make suggestions about how you want me to change your cartoons. Once I get something that you are happy with, and you give approval of the final copy, I will then send you a black and white or full color copy of your cartoon.

When it comes to the workplace, personalized caricatures are great motivators and visual affirmations of one’s appreciation for all their hard work and efforts. It will be such a delight to your employee for them to see themselves working away in a comical drawing. A little, light humour always helps people to wile away their time: it makes work less stressful.

Here’s a piece I came across that inspired a cartoon.(Please excuse me as I have misplaced the site that I got it from – it was a couple of years ago!)

For instance, lets say your chip onto the green wasn’t at all what you had hoped for, and instead you have a very difficult long putt to make for par instead. Rather than rueing the bad chip shot which most people do, you instead project forward to the next shot, and mentally repeat an affirmation such as “perfect putt, perfect putt, perfect putt…” , over, and over, and over again in your mind while your partner is hitting his shot.

So whenever you hit a bad shot or feel a negative pattern developing, interrupt it with a string of positive affirmations, repeated over and over again until the negative thought has been vanquished forever. Ensure that you never allow negative thoughts to take a hold of your thinking on the course again

The second round the next day I made sure that I was focusing my energy in seeing the golf ball go into the hole. And sure enough, the next day I shot 71. I had 27 putts and missed six other ones. The funny thing about all this is that once I focused my energy on getting the ball in the hole it was amazing how my swing fell into place.

I dealt with bad ball striking by focusing my attention on getting the golf ball in the hole, no matter what.

I can do this.
I can achieve my goals.
I am completely in control of my game.
I will create positive energy around me.